Any tips on pulling my engine. Big Block single with imco.
I am yanking it on Saturday and sending it to the builder got one of my shop mechanics coming in to help me.
Already been bugging Airpacker too much so I thought I would ask any of the Pantera dudes if they have any tips or what.
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01-06-2010 01:09 PM
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01-06-2010 01:14 PM
Drive off first...
We used a fork truck and a loading dock. Worked great. Backed the boat up with the engine hatch off and everything disconnected. Pulled up the fork truck and lifted it right on out. No problemo.
Of course it was an indoor dock in Southern California... You'll probably freeze your balls off at your place this weekend!
Good luck bud!
"Tear gas and draft beer don't mix."
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01-06-2010 01:18 PM
Oh yah, and I thought it was WAY easier than pulling motors out of cars!
"Tear gas and draft beer don't mix."
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01-06-2010 01:48 PMOffshore Racing wasn´t designed to be a spectator sport, it's for people or companies with's lots of money to push the envelope of endurance technology and hopefully put a trophy on a mantle. It's man vs the elements, not like boats with like engines running in circles.
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01-06-2010 01:30 PM
I am going to be doing it indoors in my warehouse, with a smoke and a beer and Zeppelin on the stereo.....
I am planning to pull off the drive and engine hatch Friday night, get everything disconnected inside the engine compartment except the mounting bolts and then I am going to pull the boat up to the block and tackle, hook up and pull the engine then back the boat back and drop the engine into the bed of the pickup onto a skid.
Sound like a decent plan?
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01-06-2010 01:51 PMOffshore Racing wasn´t designed to be a spectator sport, it's for people or companies with's lots of money to push the envelope of endurance technology and hopefully put a trophy on a mantle. It's man vs the elements, not like boats with like engines running in circles.
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01-06-2010 02:15 PM
Moosehead will do for a Canuck and Finn..
Unless you got any Karhu (Bear) around.
Me on the other hand try to stay while wrenching totally off beer..just relax with it later...maybe enjoy a cigar first.Last edited by MikeyFIN; 01-06-2010 at 02:20 PM.
Offshore Racing wasn´t designed to be a spectator sport, it's for people or companies with's lots of money to push the envelope of endurance technology and hopefully put a trophy on a mantle. It's man vs the elements, not like boats with like engines running in circles.
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01-06-2010 02:36 PM
Adam, you probably know this as well, but masking tape and a pen are your friends... Label everything that comes off and where it went. Probably worth the trouble to take some hi-res (large) photos of the engine compartment before dissasembly as well.
There's nothing tricky to it. I don't think it took us more than a couple hours from the first hatch pin to cleaning up the huge oily mess on the floor from the oil lines...
"Tear gas and draft beer don't mix."
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01-06-2010 02:40 PM
Adam, as I told you , one hour, no more and its on the floor. Drink several beers AFTERWARDS!
PS, this 36 Cord you guys dropped off at my shop is kinda cool. Be better if it had brakes tho
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01-06-2010 02:41 PM
1 hour that is at most.
Offshore Racing wasn´t designed to be a spectator sport, it's for people or companies with's lots of money to push the envelope of endurance technology and hopefully put a trophy on a mantle. It's man vs the elements, not like boats with like engines running in circles.
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01-06-2010 02:56 PM
I will take some pics to post in my redo thread. the redo that hasnt even started yet except in my mind and out of my mouth when drinking..lol.
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01-06-2010 05:02 PM
wish i had a 28 pantera to pull the engine on.
maybe ill get my drivers license chanced to an "Enhanced"(sp) one and drive over just to get some time messing around on one. cant be that far of a drive.
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01-06-2010 05:21 PM
there are alot of nice ones for sale.
I would just buy one if I were you then you can have all the fun of blowing engines, breaking down at horrible times, spending 500 per weekend on fuel, maintaning trailers, etc,etc,etc.
But that one time when the waves are perfect and the sun is at the right place in the sky and you are blasting across the lake at 80 plus mph with a couple screaming broads you will remember that it is all worth it!!
Cheers.
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01-06-2010 05:38 PM
J Roc on the throttles!
Seriously though... That's an awesome picture!
I was talking about taking pictures of stuff so you know where it goes when you put it back together... But can't wait to see them either!
"Tear gas and draft beer don't mix."
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01-06-2010 05:43 PM
J to the R-O-C....It could happen to you cause it happened to me...and T...lol
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01-06-2010 05:57 PM
Dude! It's Bouy!
That's too freakin' funny bud!
"Tear gas and draft beer don't mix."
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01-06-2010 05:58 PM
The dude in the background is clearly suffering from the "Julian-effect"... Oh my!
"Tear gas and draft beer don't mix."
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01-06-2010 07:08 PM
Did someone call my name??
I see where this thread is going.
Nomesayin?
J - to the - R. O. C.
"Keep the bottle on the bar Ira, I won't be long".